A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday. Global time and date of event 27/06/25 / 2025-06-27 01:34:50 / June 27, 2025 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000q90x. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000q90x. The temblor was detected at 01:34:50 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.661 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.3671 West, latitude 18.5206 North, depth = 36.661 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 49 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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